As many as 64 million KM received associations that could be brought into direct relation to political parties, as the leaders of 1807 associations were on candidate lists in the last three election cycles.
These data are neither complete, as 27 municipalities, cities, entity and cantonal ministries have not submitted information, and is increasingly the trend that large amounts of money for associations share profitable public companies.
You would He compared the data on associations that received public funds with the official of the officials and identified 344 responsible persons who perform public office, and 16 million KM was spent on their funding in the previous five years. Of these, 83 associations of water leaders (directors and members of the Supervisory Board) of public companies, while in the forefront of 184 associations are managers of public institutions. There are also 77 associations that lead elected and appointed persons, ie they are performed by any of the political functions.
Abuse and conflict of interest
In most cases, public money has been divided without any criteria and public calls, to which auditors from year to year at all levels, and this problem is also recognized in the strategies for fighting corruption.
On the other hand, budget funds are abused to finance eligible associations or even costs of election campaigns. In the past period, you submitted the applications against the leaders of the Association, which were in a direct conflict of interest, as they at the same time have served public office, but there was no adequate reaction.
After the application against the former advisor to the President of the Republika Srpska, Milan Tegletia, the government in the RS was expressly changed the law and conceited the conflict of interest in the financing of non-governmental budget. Thus, all officials are allowed to have their NGOs and receive an unlimited amount of public funds, if they do not receive salary for work in the Association. We remind you that the aim of this Law was to prevent the officials from the budget to share their own associations and private companies, so the phenomenon of interest should not be reduced to receiving the salary.
In addition, auditors in RS have determined that the funds were approved by the associations that unnecessarily spends them, but despite several court judgments in favor of the BiH and the Ombudsman’s reaction, the RS Departmental Ministry continues to hide this information.
Also, in the Federation of BiH since 2013. There is no competent commission that the conflicts that allocate public funds are completely ignored by the existence of laws and the fact that the public official is prohibited to accommodate more than 10,000 KM per year, ie 50,000 for associations in the field Cultures and sports.
The Brcko District gives the most money
The most money is divided at the local and cantonal level, but the significant amount shared in the previous period and entity government.
Compared to the budget height, the most percentage percentage shares the Government of the Brčko District, which sets 16, 8 million KM per year for funding NGOs. The District shook numerous affairs in this period to the distribution of this money in the mentioned period, but the government later made significant reform by adopting an improved conflict of interest law.
Also, the amount of funds for the financing of the Association is increased from year to year and the only decline was recorded in 2020. when the COVID is charged significantly less public revenues.
These data speak enough that is the degree of political control over the financing of the civil sector from the budget. Funds are shared by associations that often do not even have a website, do not publish reports on work, nor for what purposes are consumed by public funds.
On the other hand, the new law of unfit associations in the Republika Srpska authorities intend to limit work and mark them “foreign agents” if they are financed from European or other funds. The same funds are used by the authorities that tries through this Law, under the crisp of transparency, limit the work of unfit associations, while there is no minimum of transparency in the financing of “Government Non-Governmental Organizations”, writes Clix.
